Do I need to take both P and S together, or can I take them separately?

Our online course (School Bus CDL ELDT Training) is designed so each endorsement can be taken on its own or as part of a combined package. If you're entering motor coach, transit, or shuttle work, you only need the Passenger endorsement. If you're entering school bus work, you'll need both, and our combined package is more efficient than buying them as separate courses. The FMCSA Training Provider Registry tracks each endorsement's theory completion separately, so the records remain distinct on your file even when you finish them together.

The flexibility around bundling reflects the variety in driver career trajectories within passenger transport. A driver entering hotel shuttle work in Las Vegas needs only P; a driver hired by a school district in Pennsylvania needs both P and S; a driver moving from city transit in Chicago to a school transportation contractor later in their career adds S to existing P. Each path has different optimal training mechanics, and forcing a single bundle on every passenger-transport candidate would be inefficient. The unbundled structure lets each driver pay for and complete only the credentials their actual job requires.

For employers with mixed fleets — operators running both school transportation and charter or transit operations — the unbundled structure also matters at scale. A combined fleet might have 60 percent of drivers needing both P and S for school routes, with the remaining 40 percent on charter routes that need only P. Buying the bundle for everyone would waste budget on the charter-only drivers; buying P-only for everyone would leave school drivers under-credentialed. Our enrollment process handles per-driver routing so a single employer purchase can mix bundles and standalone P courses according to each driver's actual role.